The Song of Delilah
1949
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Highlights
  • Written for the 1949 Paramount Pictures film Samson and Delilah. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders and Angela Lansbury.
  • When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
  • Taglines: HISTORY'S MOST BEAUTIFUL AND TREACHEROUS WOMAN!

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON, MUSIC BY VICTOR YOUNG
COPYRIGHT 1949


Recording History
Lou Blackburn, The Complete Imperial Sessions, Blue Note Records, 2006
Buddy Enlow, Butch Warren and Charles Lee Davidson, The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album, Xanadu Records
Nat King Cole, Song of Delilah / Here is My Lady (J. Mercer), Captiol Records, CL 13670, 1950
Arthur Lyman, Pearly Shells, GRP Crescendo Records
Herbie Mann, Family of Mann, Atlantic Records
Mitch Miller and Burt Taylor